Software Development Manager, Amazon Data Firehose

Come build the future of data streaming with the Amazon Data Firehose (ADF) team! Amazon Data Firehose is a fully managed service for capturing transforming and delivering streaming data to destinations like Amazon S3 S3 Tables Redshift Splunk and OpenSearch Service. It automatically scales to handle incoming data requires no application to be written and can perform transformations before delivery such as format conversion or dynamic partitioning. Firehose works with billions of events and petabytes of data each day in support of many thousands of customers running mission-critical real-time applications.

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to join the Amazon Data Firehose leadership team. This highly-motivated and passionate Software Development Manager will build and lead a team to build our next generation high performance purpose-built streaming data delivery service to solve real-time end-to-end delivery of data between hundreds of sinks and sources. We are looking for an engineering manager who is enthusiastic about data streaming and using open source technologies to solve real customers business needs at AWS scale.

Building a High-Performing & Inclusive Team Culture
You should be passionate about attracting & developing a world-class team that welcomes celebrates and leverages a diverse set of backgrounds and skill-sets to deliver results. Driving results through others is your primary responsibility and doing so in a way that builds on our inclusive culture is key to our long term success.

Energizing and Interesting Technical Problems
Firehose already operates at unprecedented scale while upholding performance and durability requirements that our customers care about. You will lead the software development of large-scale distributed purpose built systems at AWS scale; in Java C/C and other languages using open source technologies and Amazon proprietary technologies.



About the team
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- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

- Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers
- Knowledge of batch and streaming data architectures like Kafka Kinesis Flink Storm Beam

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.